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Computer can't be "verified" by Apple.....

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When tying to buy the Lion OS from Apple, get the message "Your device or computer could not be verified. Contact support for assistance".

Happens every time. For some reason they reject this machine. Never happened with other versions, just Lion.
 
Thanks for the advice.
However, I can't get permission to save the edited com.apple.boot.plist
no matter what I do.

I've changed "sharing and permissions" in Get Info but that doesn't help.

Is there another way to change permissions in SystemConfiguration?
 
Login to your Admin account.
 
or do it as sudo in terminal

sudo su (login as sudo)
cd /Volumes/<name of partition/ drive>
pico com.apple.boot.plist (open it in an editor)
in the editor you can move around using the arrow keys and edit the file, then press, in succession:
CTRL+X (to quit)
Y (to save)
ENTER (to confirm)

If you can't edit it this way there's nothing to be done :D
 
Copy the file to desktop and edit it there.
Then sudo cp it back into the folder. If you don't know where it is, just drag the file and folder to terminal.
Detail:
sudo cp drag-boot.plist-here drag-des-folder-here
 
Change the permissions of the folder you're saving the file to
 
Nothing works. Apple is checking the serial number of my system and rejecting it as unknown to them.

Don't know how other non-mac hardware gets past this point but looks like I never will.
 
gfm6 said:
Nothing works. Apple is checking the serial number of my system and rejecting it as unknown to them.

Don't know how other non-mac hardware gets past this point but looks like I never will.

Do you have the PCIRootUID=1 flag in your org.chameleon.boot.plist?
 
No, that file was not included in the .plist.

Is there any place or format that needs to be followed in adding this?

Thanks for the help.
 
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